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10 Dec 2016 12:40:48pm

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About the pigs: what a great question. The boar was sacrificed to the gods of the underworld in Ugarit. As soon as I saw "boar" in the Baal myths I thought of the Gadarene swine and the interchange with the possessed man. On revisiting the Baal myth one of the stories has Baal cheating Mot (death) by substituting brothers of Mot (wild boars?) that are then eaten by him. It might be interesting to compare the role of Jesus in destroying demons incarnate in a man by making them incarnate in swine and then sending them back to the Underworld, where they appear to want to go. All of this is part of a culture moving to a higher evolutionary plain with Jesus the incarnate God supplanting Baal the god, with the heavenly struggle now taking place in the material world. Some synchronicity here. Thanks for the thought.

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